Your 2025 Gaming and Collecting Goals

[dhaabi]

It's a new year, which means it's the perfect time to set yearly goals as 2025 begins. Are you wanting to collect some specific holy grail? Hoping to complete a certain number of games within one year's time? Or maybe hoping to cut back on spending or even downsizing the collection? What exactly are your goals for 2025?

[axiomenterance]

For me would be to expand my PC physical collection. Never forget what steam took away from us! I want to get a sealed copies of the American Mcgee Alice games and also get copies of all the Command and Conquer games. I think they will look nice in the collection.

[nathan776]

I think I'm going to finally complete my Xbox 360 [EU] collection in terms of actual titles. There are only a few heavy hitters that I seem to be missing such as: English Tornado Outbreak, Fatal Inertia and Fists of the North Star: Ken's Rage. The vast majority of the remaining games are much cheaper titles. It's been very interesting noticing price tags of £4 or so on games which now are £40 while slowly scanning what I have into the database.

I'm strongly considering also completing the classics line up for the console but that one is more up in the air and will require a bit of research.

[bikingjahuty]

Beyond my goal to continually prune my current collection down, I only have one real collecting goal for 2025:


1. Add at least 10 Switch games from my want list: With the Switch in its twlight years, I've decided I'm going to actively pursue the 30 or so games on my want list that I don't yet own. Many of these are first party releases that I slept on for years after they came out, but some are on the more obscure side. I'll probably prioritize those more obscure releases since they likely have the greatest chance of becoming expensive and hard to find as time goes on.

[marvelvscapcom2]

My goal is to slow way way down on buying items until I can trim my backlog down.  I wouldn't be opposed to buying a vectrex if it is allowed but realistically I wanna be more frugal. And I dont think i'll do that. I want to put more into travel and life goals. I have more than enough games to play for years to come.


This year I completed my gameboy color console set. Each color of the logo. Excluding limited editions.  And im proud of that. Might get displays for that. But my focus is gonna be on the 52 games challenge and playing. And traveling. I feel ive been wasteful buying games I dont play and im gonna change that.  Even if I just give some a pass through or a few hours.

[courtlyhades296]

One of my goals is to get a Switch 2.

[wartoy]

My goal is pretty much the same as last year to slow down my game collecting. I almost have everything I want unless it's one of those types of games that you never see or it's big money. Cause one of my collecting rules is never buy online it's more fun for me that way. Any way I'm thinking of starting a new hobby I just got my firearms license and have been having fun with friends at the range I might even start competing.

[kamikazekeeg]

I don't collect a whole lot these days, but there are a few things I want, as I want to try and finish getting all the Zelda amiibo I have left for my collection which is original Smash Bros Link, Toon Link, Wind Waker Link, Wind Waker Zelda, and Young Link.  I might also need another Skyward Sword Link, I don't know, I had it, and somehow it's disappeared lol  I wouldn't mind picking up more N64 stuff, particularly VHS tapes, maybe some boxed games, but I'm not sure, I don't really have the money to get back into collecting these days.

[dhaabi]

For 2025, all of my goals relate to playing habits.
 
• Finish Silent Hill franchise
• Begin Resident Evil franchise
• Play PlayStation VR
• Play through PlayStation major franchise entries
• Play one Final Fantasy game
• Play games for as many platforms as I can that are available to me
• Play an even greater variety of game genres than I did in 2024
• Play more short-length indie games on PC

After going back to look at my goals for 2024, I technically accomplished them all to some degree, but playing games for a variety of platforms was the one I feel most satisfied with. I actually have 28 platforms available to me and succeeded in playing games for 20 of them. However, I don't own games I'm wanting to play for some, and other systems I don't have the right setup to use, or I experienced some sort of hardware difficulty that needs managing before I'm able to use them. From 2024, there were only three platforms without issue with games I'm actively wanting to play that I wasn't able to, which were Game Boy Advance, Xbox, and Xbox One. So, 20/23 seems like quite the success for me.

[sworddude]

No collecting goals here. if stuff happens it happens. keeps stuff exciting. slow and steady wins the race